13. Of course, my brothers and sisters, I really do not think that I have already won it; the one thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind me and do my best to reach what is ahead.
14. So I run straight towards the goal in order to win the prize, which is God's call through Christ Jesus to the life above.
15. All of us who are spiritually mature should have this same attitude. But if some of you have a different attitude, God will make this clear to you.
16. However that may be, let us go forward according to the same rules we have followed until now.
17. Keep on imitating me, my brothers and sisters. Pay attention to those who follow the right example that we have set for you.
18. I have told you this many times before, and now I repeat it with tears: there are many whose lives make them enemies of Christ's death on the cross.
19. They are going to end up in hell, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they think only of things that belong to this world.